#unknow

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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.


Ron Silver


#barbarism #before #century #exhibited #human

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.


William Wordsworth


#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.


Marty Rubin


#the-unknown #trust #love

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.


Phillip Mann


#criticism #culture #mystery #prejudice #the-unknown

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.


Fritz Leiber


#supernatural #unknown #men

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it.


Israelmore Ayivor


#coins #counterfeit #cross #currency #dream-big

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


#superstition #unknown #unseen #religion

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.


Anthony de Mello


#knowledge #mysticism #unknowing #description

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.


James A. Baldwin


#containing #face #invested #like #lover

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.


Lynn Abbey


#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet